Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

The lack of money is the root of all evil.